Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Maug Islands region, Northern Mariana Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, Maug Islands region, Northern Mariana Islands (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/03/25 / 2025-03-22 03:43:50 / March 22, 2025 @ 3:43 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 370.801 km (230 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000pp9a. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pp9a. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:43:50 / 3:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 144.8945° East, latitude 19.0514° North, depth = 370.801 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Maug Islands region, Northern Mariana Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	144.8945° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0514° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	370.801 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Maug Islands region, Northern Mariana Islands	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-22 03:43:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-16 23:17:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	222	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.885	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	122	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000pp9a	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pp9a	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pp9a,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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